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and they want tliem to be reduced to 5 in future. This is too little 

 but at the same time 50 appears large. Will not 25 dol This, I 

 think, was my original suggestion. Let me know your opinion, and 

 also the reasons for 50, if you still think that number ought to be 

 continued. Send me, too, some account of how the thing is proceed- 

 ing, as you have been up there. They Vike facts at home very much, 

 and tJiey tell more than 100 arguments of any other kind. Believe 

 me, my dear Sir, yours very truly, Sydenham." Lord Sydenham's 

 very minute hand is difficult to decipher. He did not employ in his 

 signature his full title — Sydenham and Toronto. 



After Lord Sydenham came Sir Charles Bagot as Governor-General. 

 My autograph memorial of him speaks of the Clergy Reserve ques- 

 tion, which was not yet settled. The note is addressed to one of his 

 Canadian Ministers, and is dated Friday, March 18, 1843. "I had 

 entirely forgot," he says, " when you were here this morning, that I 

 had transmitted by the last mail to the Colonial Office your own 

 Memorandum upon the Clergy Reserve question ; and I conceive 

 therefore that en attendant the receipt of Lord Stanley's answer to 

 my dispatch upon the subject, we have precluded ourselves from any 

 further discussion upon the subject. As, however, there are no doubt 

 other points which we have to decide in Council, I will be down 

 to-morrow at 2 o'clock. Yours truly and faithfully, Chas. Bagot.'' 

 I may add another example, addressed to an eminent Canadian legal 

 functionary. It is dated simply " Sunday morning," and then runs 

 thus : " My dear Sir : Tliere appears to be no chance of seeing you 

 excepting on a Sunday, when your Court is not sitting. Can you 

 come and dine here quite quietly to-day : nobody but ourselves. I 

 wish much to have some conversation with you on College matters, 

 which admit of no more delay. I have not had a line from the 

 Bishop. Yours truly and faithfully, Chas. Bagot." It was Sir 

 Charles Bagot, it may be recalled, who laid the foundation-stone of 

 King's College, which afterwards was transformed into University 

 College, Toronto. 



Of Lord Metcalfe, who came next after Sir Charles Bagot, I have 

 to content myself at present with a sign-manual attached to a 

 marriage-license ; and similarly with respect to Lord Cathcart, who 

 administered the Government for a short time. 



In addition to the bold Elgin and Kincardine signature of the 

 Governor-General who then succeeded, I have a note in the third 



